Open Flexible Work

July 20, 2012

When I speak to groups of young women and men, more and more frequently the question I get isn’t “Can I have it all?” it’s “Should I have kids at all?” Young women and couples watch as friends have children, and see new mothers and fathers completely stressed out juggling work and family, marriages...

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Kristin Maschka

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

July 18, 2012

This blog was cross-posted from Womenstake , the National Women's Law Center's blog. On Monday, the news broke that a pregnant woman is now leading a Fortune 500 company—an important and exciting milestone. Before being appointed CEO of Yahoo this week, Marissa Mayer disclosed her pregnancy to...

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Liz Watson

Open Flexible Work

July 18, 2012

Why do women themselves say that women “Can’t Have it All ?” We say it because, as one mother told me, the phrase resonates as being “Shockingly, earthshakingly true.” We use you “Can’t Have it All” because it reflects a reality, our frustration with the impossible goal of trying to be both June...

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Kristin Maschka

Open Flexible Work

July 10, 2012

Excerpted from full piece at The Huffington Post Anne-Marie Slaughter's article " Why Women Still Can't Have it All" published in The Atlantic has struck a collective nerve, breaking readership records on the magazine's website and generating all manner of buzz. I admire her courage to speak out on...

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Kyra Cavanaugh

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

July 2, 2012

Cross-posted from The Huffington Post . By now, you’ve probably either read or read about Anne-Marie Slaughter’s Atlantic essay in which she recounts from personal experience why she believes women cannot “have it all” and calls on all of us to recognize the conditions that must change to make it...

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Katrina Alcorn

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

June 23, 2012

First, thanks to Anne-Marie Slaughter for peeling the band-aid off an open wound of American womanhood. It’s our dirty little secret: balancing work and family is still impossible for elite American women because of the way we structure work, family, love, marriage, careers, masculinity, and...

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Joan C. Williams

Paid Family Leave Open Flexible Work

May 12, 2012

My favorite Mother's day gifts from my sons were their original stories, songs and poems. But what I needed when they were infants and toddlers was something children can't deliver: affordable time off when they were born and when they were sick. So for all those candidates and elected officials...

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Ellen Bravo

Paid Family Leave Childcare & Early Education Environmental Health Paid Sick Days Health Care Open Flexible Work

April 25, 2012

by Rachel Sarnoff, Executive Director & CEO Healthy Child Healthy World www.healthychild.org Happiest Babies Are Soothed by 5 S’s Can simple soothing take the place of sugar? That was the takeaway from a new study published this week in the journal Pediatrics. In a study involving more than 200...

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Rachel Sarnoff

Open Flexible Work

April 19, 2012

The world is sludging Sheryl Sandberg. What is "sludge?" you ask? Read on! This story has been buzzing around the internet this week, and it's been driving me crazy. Pete Cashmore of Mashable writes in this article : Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg recently set off quite a debate in the tech world...

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Jody Thompson

Paid Family Leave Paid Sick Days Open Flexible Work

April 17, 2012

Cross posted with author permission from the Huffington Post . Wow. So many readers of my last blog post thought I was endorsing Rick Santorum, his policy prescriptions and all the anti-gay and anti-women statements he has made when I wrote that I’d miss him in the Presidential contest. Not at all...

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